10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISPONDEE»
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1
Rhythmic Proportions in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Chant
(a) Spondee opposite double-long (b) Dactyl „ double-long (c) Dactyl „ spondee (
d) Spondee plus double-long „ dispondee (e) Dispondee „ two double-longs (f)
Dispondee „ dispondee Would it be presumptuous to suggest that the words ...
2
Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles'
Most of his clausulae are constructed from a few standard building-blocks: the
cretic (– k –), spondee (– –) and trochee (– k); from these the dispondee (– – – –)
and ditrochee (– k – k); also the molossus (– – –) and hypodochmiac or cretic– ...
Pliny the Younger, Pliny (the Younger.), Christopher Whitton, 2013
3
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
dispersed. rhyme. See. RHYME. dispondee. Two spondees (q.v.) combined into
a single unit. It is rare, and a series of spondees is extremely rare. dissemination.
The verb to disseminate means 'to sow or scatter abroad', 'to propagate', ...
4
A New and Improved Standard French and English and English ...
DISPONDEE, sm. [poc\] a double spondee, dispondee. DD3PONIBLE, adj. free to
be used, disposable. DISPONIBILITE, sf. [jur.] power of disposal (of property) ; [
milit. J Btate of being unattached. Jttre en — ; to be liable to be called upon to ...
Alexander G. Collot, 1856
5
A grammar of the Greek language
Aixpi'tt Dochmius, „ i£t>uZ.tuip.w £uimo\i$iios, Dispondee, (i<iv\iutaiircu. Notes, a.
The Pyrrhic appears to have been so named from its nse in the war-dance (jTvppl
%it) ; the Iamb, from its early use in invective (Jirra, to assail) ; the Trochee ...
6
An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin ...
A line in one of Horace's Satires begins like that of Virgil's; but, what is not
common, a second dispondee immediately succeeds the first: 0 fortunati
mércatéres gravils armis Miles ait. Here the two dispondees are made ditrochees
; the line ends ...
7
An essay on the modern pronunciation of the Greek and Latin ...
The dispondee, as the name announces, is a foot of great length and gravity :
and when a poet wishes some principal image, of whatever kind, whether
pleasing, majestic, or mysteriously awful, to be impressed and to remain on the
reader's ...
sir Uvedale Price (bart.), 1827
8
Strict Metrical Tradition: Variations in the Literary Iambic ...
346 And color is decayd: summers robe growes 355 Being all color, all
Diaphanous, 366 Nor in ought more this worlds decay appeares, 377 Mild
irregularities The dispondee (////) at line 37o, Thou knowst how wan a Ghost this
our world is: is ...
9
The Immortality of the Soul; The Magnitude of the Soul; On ...
And finally there is the dispondee, it, too, beating out its rhythm only alone,
because it finds no foot posterior to it or equal to it. And so of all the feet there are
eight giving rhythm of their own only if no other foot is mixed in: the pyrrhic,
tribrach, ...
10
Sanskrit Prosody: Its Evolution
The opening member in each verse is a dispondee ; the second is an adonic — a
slightly modified form of the first member — , the second longum of the opening
dispondee being resolved into two brevia. Obviously the motif was to avoid too ...
Amulya Dhan Mukherji, Amūlyadhana Mukhopādhyāẏa, 1976
